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Erika

Thanks Joe!

A few weeks ago, Joe at Culinary in the Desert made these scrumptious sounding cinnamon rolls. I finally got around to making them today. And boy, does my house smell fantastic!! I...

Sugar Cookies

Per a request 😉 Here are the sugar cookies I found on allrecipes: * Exported from MasterCook * Sugar Cookie Cutouts 1 cup butter — softened 1 cup white sugar 2 eggs...

Snow day!!!!

Yes, it is snowing! I can honestly say that I am not ready for snow. Yuck. It’s also blustery, so it is full fledged winter here today. I am not a winter...

Feeling Lucky?

Baked custard.Always have loved to order it out. But I have never made it myself. So tonight I looked up a recipe for baked custard, and then decided that I wanted to...

Turn off the TV night

Is tonight in our house. I think it is kind of funny, actually. Abigail’s school is celebrating books this week, and part of that is turn off the TV night. What is...

Completely Irrational :-)

That’s me today. This morning I sent my Precious Princess to school with someone else. Since she started Kindergarten, either Andy or I have taken her to school every day, and picked...

A Baking Frenzy

I’m just in the mood.The mood to bake. Yesterday I used some expired bananas to make a chocolate chip banana bread. Yum. Then I used some past their prime apples to make...

The show must go on!

Today was the first day of the end of madness. 🙂 Today we held our official dress rehearsal for Bye Bye Birdie. The dress rehearsal is technically a performance. It is a...

Hey- I cooked something new today!

Sort of. 🙂 I made basic pasta and marinara tonight for dinner. Which of course I have done many times before. But I did try a new marinara recipe today. I tried...

So they said the turkey was good.

But I certainly wouldn’t know. I woke up at 5:00 am yesterday morning for my own visit to the bathroom. And pretty much spent the rest of the day alternating between there...

I will likely miss tomorrow.

I figure that there is a good chance I will miss posting tomorrow because of Thanksgiving Dinner. But I had to come on and post my successes today. It was a crazy...

The turkey is brining!

Well, last night I got the turkey brining! Later tonight I will take it out of the brine to rest overnight. Today I have quite a few things to do, but forgetting...